Phineas ektmons



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

PHINEA'S EMMONS, OF NEWv YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR SIZING- HAT-BODIES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 13,304, dated July 24, 1855.

To all 'whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PHINEAS EMMoNs, of the city, county, and State of New York. have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Sizing or Shrinking Hat-Bodiesg and I do hereby declare the following to be a full description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in arranging in al water box a vertical disk wheel, having a ribbed or corrugated radiating or scrolli face, and combining it with a graduating pressure board and self-acting adjusting levers or springs for the purpose of graduating and accommodating the pressure of the wheel upon the roll of felt. But to describe my invention more particularly I will refer to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this schedule, the same letters of reference wherever they occur refer-ring to like parts.

Figure l, is a cut section of the machine through the line x-a', Fig. 2, except as to the disk wheel, which is represented in full. Fig. 2, is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 3, is a detached view of the face of the disk wheel. Figs. 4 and 5, are plan views of the water box through the line x2, m2, Fig. l, showing the throat of the pressure board; and a projection of the graduating curve of the face of the pressure board.

Letter A, is t-he water-box. This box may he -made of wood or metal as may be thought best. In this water box and transversely of it, is arranged a partition B, which is also faced as a pressure board, against which, the roll of felt is carried by the face wheel D. The face of this pressure board is cut away at one side of the center of the disk wheel, (as seen at c) so as to allow of a large roll to be fed in between the wheel and it, and then gradually diminishes, until it runs off to nothing at the opposite side of the center of the disk wheel, or at the discharging point. The object of this graduating face is to subject the roll of felt to an increasing pressure as it passes through the machine, and at the same time to expel the water from it on being discharged.

Letter D, is a disk wheel, some four or more or less feet in diameter, and made of metal or wood as may be thought best. This wheel is arranged on the end of an axis E, supported by a frame work F, and working into bearings G, so as to allow play to the wheel, that is, the wheel to move to position, having its center about on a line with the upper edge of the water box, the lower half dipping into the water box, so as to immerse about one third to one quarter the diameter of the wheel below the water line w3, m3, so that, the roll of felt, which is,

entered at (c) is carried by the ribs on the face of the wheel down into the water, and out again and discharged at the opposite side. These ribs radiate from the center of the wheel; the corrugations, however, may be varied so as to differ from the precise form exhibited in the drawings, and yet accomplish the object of carrying the roll of felt, and therefore I do not intend to conline myself to the radiated face of the wheel, should I discover on further use that scroll or oblique corrugations would be equally as useful and cheaper to make.

Letter L, is a folding table board arranged on the upper edge of the water box; and letter M, is a table board forming the cap of the pressure board or partition against which the roll of felt is pressed.

Letter N, is a crank as the end of the axis E, for rotating the wheel.

The operation of my machine is, irstI ll the water box with hot water to about the line w3, m3, or by means of steam pipes or furnace keep the water heated to the temperature required. In consequence of holes in the partition or pressure board the water in each compartment of the water box is always at the same height. After filling the water box I next take six or more or less as may be required unsized fur hat bodies and roll them up in the usual way on the table L, and then wet. them by dipping them into the rst compartment of the water box. Having done this, I then lay the roll horizontally at the edge of the throat (c) one end being quite near the center and roll it against the face of the revolving wheel, which immediately carries it, around with it and through the water, and out at the opposite side where it is deposited on the table M, comparatively speaking dry, in consequence of the tightening of the roll and pressure applied thereto. As the philosophy of shrinking or sizing felts is explained by the alternate wetting in hot water and drying out again, it Will be apparent that by this process, the shrinking can be carried on With great perfection and a great saving of manual labor.

Having now described my invention I will state what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

Vhat I claim is- The Water box, having the partition or 10 graduating pressure board therein, in coinl bination with the vertical disk Wheel having a ribbed or corrugated face, and self adjusting Weighted levers, the same being made and combined substantally as hereinbei'ore set forth.

PHINEAS EMMONS.

lVitnesses ALBERT SPENCER, CHARLES L. BARRITT. 

